Brooklyn judge sentences Bloods leader to 37 years in prison for role in killing Bronx mobster ‘Sally Daz’ Zottola in plot hatched by Zottola’s son
By John Annese
New York Daily News
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Jun 08, 2023
A Brooklyn Bloods leader who was hired by the son of a Bronx mobster to orchestrate a hit on his dad will spend 37 years behind bars, a federal judge ordered Thursday.
Bushawn Shelton, 39, coordinated the year-long patricide-for-hire scheme to murder Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, trading a stream of coded texts and chummy banter with the son, Anthony Zottola, who coveted his 71-year-old dad’s multi-million-dollar real estate empire.
As part of the scheme, a hit man repeatedly shot and severely wounded Sally Daz’s other son, Salvatore Zottola.
Shelton pleaded guilty last year to avoid life in prison, just days before he was slated to stand trial alongside Anthony Zottola. Under the terms of his plea deal, he could have been sentenced to between 35 years and 40 years behind bars.
Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Hector Gonzalez decided to split the difference, considering Shelton’s difficult upbringing and decision to take responsibility as he weighed the heinousness of the crime.
“The defendant orchestrated a series of attacks both on Sylvester and Salvatore Zottola over the course of a year that caused terror for this family,” Gonzalez said. “He appears to have done all of this purely out of — there’s no other word but a sense of greed, for payment from Mr. (Anthony) Zottola.”
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